Introduction to HealthCare
Duties and responsibilities involved in a work position that you should receive upon employment.
What is a job description?
Requirements everyone needs for life that may be achieved by different methods
What are Basic Human Needs ?
Messages sent by methods other than spoken or written words such as body language or facial expressions.
What is non-verbal communication?
A general term that applies to washing hands with water and soap or thoroughly applying and alcohol-based hand rub.
What is hand hygiene?
The process of breathing
What is Respiration?
The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish
What is abuse?
The study of the elderly/aging
What is Geriatrics?
When the receiver gets the message the way the sender intended.
What is effective communication?
A webbed belt uses as a safety device when moving a resident.
What is a transfer/gait belt?
Measurement of body heat.
What is Temperature?
Not sharing spoken and/or written words about a resident
What is confidentiality?
Differences among people that include race, culture, gender, age and abilities
What is Diversity?
A factual or measurable event such as a pulse rate, respiration, fever, cough.
Objective information
The law that states a worker must be informed when working with hazardous infectious materials.
What is the "Right to Know Law"?
Measurement of the force or tension of the blood against the wall of arteries.
What is Blood Pressure?
An advocate or representative who speaks or writes in support of residents for their cause or complaint
What is an Ombudsman?
Response to stress one uses to protect his/her feelings of self-esteem.
What are Coping Mechanisms?
A written method or outline identifying residents needs and how health care workers will assist them in meeting those needs.
What is a Care Plan?
Process involved in the transmission and development of infectious diseases.
What is the Chain of Infection?
Pulse rate over 100 beats per minute (bpm)
What is Tachycardia?
A federal law implemented in 1991 that requires federally funded health care facilities to inform residents about their rights to make treatments choices.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act?
Achievement of one's greatest potential abilities.
What is Self-Actualization?
Unexpected situation which may cause harm to residents, employees or any other person
What is an incident?
Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and refers to infection prevention practices that apply to all residents, regardless of suspected or confirmed diagnosis or presumed infection status.
What are Standard Precautions?
Lack of oxygen in the body tissues
What is Hypoxia?